Friday, November 8, 2013

Camacho to respect DepEd on fate of Central School

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BAYAMBANG –
The mayor of this robust town said he would respect the final decision of the
Department of Education (DepEd) in Manila on the fate of the gutted by fire Bayambang Central
Elementary School.

Mayor Ricardo Camacho said he would bow to the DepEd in
Manila incase it decides that more than 500 students in Grades 1 and 2 who are dislocated
by fire that razed eight Gabaldon type classrooms should remain at the gutted
building.

The school was razed by fire at the wee hour of June last
year that saw students attend class every school day into two shifts.

“Kasi ang ginagawa ko talaga
lang iyong concern ko ngayon ang health ng mga bata wala ng iba kung
hindi ang kapakanan ng mga bata. Sana maintindihan ako ng mga tao,” he stressed
after he filed a mandatory temporary restraining order to the court for School
Division Superintended Ruby Torio of Pangasinan 1 of the Department of
Education and personnel to heed for the transfer of students in a new school
building with a gymnasium built by a certain William Chua.

Chua was reported to eye the central school as a venue of a
shopping mall.

Camacho said the 20 days mandatory TRO that took effect last
October 7 was prompted by the sad plight of the students at the 100 year-old
Central School who bear the flood whenever there is a downpour.

In the TRO, RTC -56 presiding judge Hermogenes Fernandez
ordered Torio and Bayambang Central School principal Danilo Lopez not to stall
the transfer as it would work injustice and prejudice to the students.

Trouble ensued after the lapsed of the TRO as some teachers,
parents, and pupils, morally supported by some media outlets in Dagupan City,
went back to the old school building.But in October 31, Judge Fernandez issued a writ of preliminary injunction ordering all concern to remain at the new school buildings.

Camacho said incase the Department of Education in Manila favors
his administration to transfer the students at the new school buildings he
would donate all the facilities there.